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27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

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Is There a Need for Ongoing Economic Growth?

i think that this is more fundamental than we're used to thinking about. We know that wealth has a power law distribution, and there's some very fundamental things about why it's always going to have power law distribution. And i think that obviously we can go positive some and still have it all be captured by a few right? Like not actually have anything like appropriate to distribution. If we don't have economic growth and people keep wanting more stuff than it goes zero sum.

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